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This kind of thing drives me crazy. Why not allow special characters? The only conceivable reason is so that your app doesn't get SQL-injected or otherwise hija
by sabat 15y ago
This kind of thing drives me crazy. Why not allow special characters? The only conceivable reason is so that your app doesn't get SQL-injected or otherwise hijacked -- which is why God invented the character escape.
Limiting the number of chars as a security measure? I'd make fun of this but it's just too easy and stupid.
- ScottBurson 15y agoDon't know for sure, but I have a persistent suspicion that some people are passing unencoded passwords as shell arguments. It's the only explanation I can come up with. Not that that makes it acceptable, of course -- or even any less astonishing.